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forsta

forsta verb: to comprehend; understand.

Verb

forsta (third-person singular simple present forstas, present participle forstaing, simple past and past participle forstaed)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive, transitive) To comprehend; understand.
    • A cripple I'm not, ye forsta me, Tho' lame of a hand that I be; [...]1714, Joseph Ritson, Scotish song

forsta meaning in Bengali

forsta in Bengali

উপলব্ধি করা, বোঝা

Forms of forsta

third-person singular presentforstas
present participleforstaing
past participleforstaed
pastforstaed
alternative Scotlandforstaa
alternative Scotlandforstaw

Origin of forsta

Probably from Dutch verstaan (“to understand”); or from Norwegian forstå (“to understand”), itself from Middle Low German vorstân (“to understand”), from Old Saxon farstandan (“to understand”), equivalent to for- + stand. More at forstand.

Questions about forsta

What does forsta mean?
Forsta means to comprehend; understand.
What is forsta in Bengali?
Forsta in Bengali is উপলব্ধি করা, বোঝা. See Forsta meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is forsta?
Forsta is a verb.
What is the past tense of forsta?
The past tense of forsta is forstaed.

Words near forsta in the dictionary

  1. forspoken
  2. forspread
  3. Forssman
  4. Forssmans
  5. Forst
  6. forsta
  7. forstaa
  8. forstaaed
  9. forstaaing
  10. forstaas
  11. forstaed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: forsta (page history and authors); forsta (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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